Impulse Space

Senior Mission Integration Engineer

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Redondo Beach, CA, USA

In-Office

140K-180K Annually

Senior level

Aerospace • Software

The Role

Leads technical integration of customer payloads and mission requirements onto spacecraft. Owns interface documentation, compliance matrices, verification traceability, risk mitigation, and multidisciplinary coordination. Partners with engineering teams and mission managers to resolve integration issues, assess spacecraft capabilities, support environmental testing, and prepare for launch-site operations. Occasional travel is required for hardware integration, test campaigns, and launch operations.

Summary Generated by Built In

As a Senior Mission Integration Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for executing the technical integration of customer payloads and mission requirements onto Impulse space vehicles. In this role, you will bridge customer technical teams and internal engineering disciplines – establishing hardware, software, and operational interfaces from kickoff through delivery. You will lead technical problem-solving, maintain baseline interface documentation, and ensure mission integration readiness across complex missions.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain technical baseline documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and compliance matrices for customer missions
Lead multi-disciplinary coordination across different technical focus areas to resolve integration issues
Partner with Responsible Engineers (REs) and Mission Managers to evaluate evolving spacecraft capabilities against customer requirements
Proactively identify technical risks early in the mission lifecycle and formulate engineering trade-offs and mitigations
Support mission verification, environmental test reviews, and launch site integration flows
Maintain traceability through clear action item tracking, meeting records, and analysis/test/inspection data in shared company repositories
Occasionally travel to support hardware integration events, test campaigns, or launch operations (less than 20% travel)

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, mission integration, or complex technical project execution
Strong understanding of core aerospace subsystem interfaces and familiarity with tracking contract requirements against technical deliverables
Experience maintaining technical documentation, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), or verification matrices

Preferred Skills and Experience

Master’s degree in an engineering discipline
Active security clearance or willingness to obtain
Experience working directly as a technical point of contact with external partners or customers in a fast-paced environment
Familiarity with civil space or national security processes and systems
Strong organizational skills with a track record of documenting technical processes, interface definitions, and verification logic

Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

About
Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

Skills Required

Bachelor's degree in a technical field
5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, mission integration, or complex technical project execution
Strong understanding of aerospace subsystem interfaces
Familiarity with tracking contract requirements against technical deliverables
Experience maintaining technical documentation, Interface Control Documents, or verification matrices
U.S. person status or eligibility to obtain an applicable U.S. export license
Master's degree in an engineering discipline
Active security clearance or willingness to obtain one
Experience serving as a technical point of contact for external partners or customers
Familiarity with civil space or national security processes and systems